On Tuesday, four candidates for president filed separate cases with the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja asking for the proclamation of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the presidential election on February 25 to be overturned.
Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Solomon Okangbuan of the Action Alliance, and Chichi Ojei of the Allied People’s Movement are among the petitioners who want Tinubu’s election as president-elect to be thrown out.
With 6,984,520 votes, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party came in second, and Obi took third with 6,101,533.
Respondents to the petition filed by Obi and LP were INEC, Tinubu, Shettima Kashim, his running mate, and the APC.